This meal, we drank until the early hours of the morning. Early the next morning, I picked up the pier, dragged him with him, and rushed to Professor Yan's residence.

Professor Yan was a more elaborate person, and he was not used to living in a big car shop, so he rented a courtyard house in Zhaowu Dameng, and he brought the housekeepers and maids from Yundian to him. Although it has been liberated for many years, and the people have long been the masters of their own affairs, I can still see at a glance the loyalty and reverence of these family members and maids to Professor Yan.

We sat in the living room waiting for Professor Yan, who would be sleepy if he was idle, not to mention that we hadn't woken up yet, and our mouths were full of wine when we burped. I fell asleep in the living room in a daze.

This time I slept so soundly, and in a hazy mood, I just felt that someone was pushing me. Squinting to see that it was Yun Jingjing, she hated that iron and steel were twisted on my arm, and the pain made me jump up with a snort, and I didn't feel sleepy.

Yun Jingjing pointed at my temple and said, "You said that you are really promising, and you can even sleep when you visit someone's door!" Uncle Yan has been waiting for you in the study for a long time, hurry up and come with me! ”

I grinned, rubbed my arms, and saw that Dunzi was also lying on the chair with his back and snoring, and wanted to step forward and push him, and when I went with me, Yun Jingjing glanced at me and said, "Uncle Yan just wants to see you alone, let him sleep here!" ”

Since she said so, I didn't pay any attention to Dunzi, and followed him around a few corners to Professor Yan's study.

When I entered, the lights in the house were still on. Professor Yan's eyes were red, and it seemed that he hadn't slept all night, and he was still studying bamboo slips all night.

Professor Yan saw me enter the house and asked the maid to serve me two cups of fine tea. Sit in a chair and suck. After agreeing for a long time, after relieving the fatigue of the night, he slowly said to me: "Zhao Xian's nephew is from the capital? ”

When I saw him asking, I quickly put down the teacup and replied respectfully: "Oh, the younger generation was not from Beijing, and later moved to Beijing with his father." I once heard my grandfather mention it, it seems that it is in Shuntianfu, Fengrun County, Zhaojiazhuang, and two stores, and the younger generations don't know much about what the specific place is. ”

"Yes, that's right!"

Professor Yan nodded, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and continued: "I heard Jingjing say that Zhao Xian's nephew is a descendant of the tomb robbery Qimen, I don't know what the relationship between you and Zhao Yanchu is!" Have you ever heard of the Tianjiu Strange Gate? ”

I took a sip of tea, raised my eyes and looked at Professor Yan's heart and said, "This old man Yan actually knows the name of my ancestor, it seems that he has untied the bundle of bamboo slips, and the message to be conveyed, but I really haven't heard of the Tianjiu Qimen, I only know that the ancestor once founded the Yanshamen, is there any connection between the Tianjiuqimen and the Yanshamen?" ”

Seeing that I didn't answer for a long time, Professor Yan stood up and laughed, returned to the bookcase, picked up the bundle of bamboo slips and said to me: "This bundle of bamboo slips, in terms of year and workmanship, should be a cultural relic from the early Three Kingdoms, but it is written in the early Yinxu text, and it really takes a lot of brains to crack it." ”

I took the bamboo slip and looked at it for a long time, but it was empty, and there was not a word. I wondered for a long time, and my heart said if this old thing was playing tricks on me.

After reading it, I put the bamboo slip on the table, and asked Professor Yan quietly: "Professor Yan should have been studying this bamboo slip for some time, I don't know if I can understand the content inside?" ”

The purpose of my asking this is to see how Old Man Yan explained to me the problem of this bundle of empty bamboo slips.

Professor Yan returned to his previous seat, took a sip of tea and replied: "What the virtuous nephew said is true, about the content recorded in this bamboo slip, not only the old man, but even the late father has studied it for half his life. It's a pity that my father couldn't decipher it in the end, and he died with hatred! ”

"Huh?"

This old man Yan's words, the more I say it, the more confused I become, and I feel that Xuan is outrageous. Yun Jingjing and I have only taken this bundle of bamboo slips out of the general's tomb for more than ten years, even if Yun Jingjing handed over this bamboo slip to Old Man Yan, his father was still alive, and he should be more than a hundred years old, how could he study it for half his life.

So he pretended to be blank and asked, "Oh? The younger generation is stupid, and some don't quite understand what Professor Yan means, so please ask Elder Yan to make it clear! ”

Professor Yan was stunned for a moment, put down the teacup, took out a few yellowed pieces of paper from his arms, handed them to me and replied suspiciously, "What? Zhao Xian's nephew, as a descendant of the Zhao family, didn't know about the Tianjiu Qimen? Could it be that your old Taishan has never mentioned it to you? ”

I took the scrap of paper, and the text on it was vague and incomprehensible, much like an oracle bone inscription, and I couldn't even read a word based on my experience and knowledge.

Looking at Professor Yan's puzzled expression, I told the truth truthfully: "The younger generation was still young in his early years, and my grandfather didn't mention much about the Tianjiu Qimen to me. Later, in order to respond to the call, I joined the team for more than ten years and never went home to visit. So I don't know why. If it is convenient for the elderly, the younger generation is willing to hear about it. ”

Professor Yan nodded and replied, "Hey, since Old Taishan didn't mention it to you, it's inconvenient for the old man to say more." As for this bundle of bamboo slips, although the old man has studied it for several years, he has only analyzed it a little. According to the exquisite study of the bamboo slips, this bamboo slip should be a thing from the Three Kingdoms period, and the person who wrote it should be the descendants of Tianjiumen. ”

"Oh!"

I heard Professor Yan say this, picked up the bamboo slips on the table again, and looked at them carefully, although I am not very good at antique identification, for such a long time ago, I am still curious, I want to see what the ancients made in it, and it can be preserved so well.

Professor Yan ignored my small gestures and continued: "The production method of this bundle of bamboo slips is very exquisite, and if it is opened during the day, there is not a word from beginning to end. At night or in a darker place, a pine flame candle is lit, and with the help of the golden light of the candle, rows of tadpole characters will appear on the bamboo slips, shining with golden light. Therefore, the old man deduced that this book is the "Golden Book of Inheritance", which is what the world calls the wordless book of heaven. ”

Professor Yan demonstrated for me as he spoke, covered all the doors and windows of the study with curtains, and lit pine candles. Sure enough, the wordless bamboo slips I was holding actually appeared with rows of tadpole gold characters, as if they were alive, jumping on the bamboo slips.

I took a few scraps of paper from earlier and compared them with the tadpoles on the bamboo slips, exactly the same.

Professor Yan was fascinated by me, knocked on the table, reminded me and said: "Although the old man has only analyzed one or two contents of this bundle of bamboo slips, but referring to past rumors and documents, what is told in the bamboo slips should be related to the Tianjiu Qimen and the tomb of the general of the Jin Dynasty. ”

After Professor Yan finished speaking, he returned to his desk, took out the rubber map in the drawer, handed it to me, and said, "This human skin map and the wordless book are put together, and there must be a certain connection between them!" ”

"Wait! What kind of map do you say? Human Skin Map! ”

This really shocked me, if Professor Yan didn't say it, I guess I wouldn't have thought that this map turned out to be a human skin!

"What? The descendants of the tomb robbery Qimen would be afraid of a human skin! This is a sight for the old man! ”

"How is it possible, Old Yan, you are laughing, I just drank too much yesterday and didn't get used to it for a while. Eh, you said that the ancients were too cruel, what kind of skin is used to make a map, it is not good to use human skin! ”

Professor Yan glanced at me, didn't debunk me again, opened the human skin map, pointed to the very vague line of writing at the bottom right, and said to me: "This text should be added later, and the person who wrote it should have an extraordinary relationship with Zhao Xian's nephew." I've sorted it out and put it on my desk. If Zhao Xian's nephew is interested, he can take a look first and decide whether to go to the tomb. If Zhao Xian's nephew can listen to the old man's words, then I advise you not to go down to this tomb! ”

I didn't rush to reply to Professor Yan, but walked straight to the bookcase, picked up the manuscript that Professor Yan had sorted out, and studied it carefully. Here's what he wrote in the analysis he gave me:

My name is Zhao Yanchu, I have been in the ear for five years, and I am the head of Yansha. In the sixth year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in the year of the lunar calendar, Sun Muqing, who was commanded by the military capital, was forced to build a longevity bed for his later generations. According to the precedents of the mausoleums of various dynasties, I am afraid that I will not be blessed and flee from this catastrophe.

When I can't sleep at night, think about the past, now I have scattered all my family wealth, and there is no place to settle down, buried in this mound, it can also be said to be the best choice, now will be in the Yalu Witch Tomb in the Nine Xuan Inscription and the wordless book hidden in this tomb, as my burial, in order to prevent theft and digging, specially embezzled the Yalu Witch Tomb Stone Gu Case, and plus the blood seal of the relatives, not the blood of the descendants of the clan, shall not be opened.

According to my decipherment of the wordless book, the stone Gu case contains Miao Jiang Gu poison, volatilizes the breath of magic incense, sneaks into the body of the tomb with the air, enters the marrow and invades the bones, and attracts spirit insects to kill the body. If you are not a descendant of the Tianjiu Qi Sect, you can't resist the erosion of Gu poison at all. Therefore, the descendants of our generation take the two treasures and leave quickly, and must not be greedy for money and enter the tomb, which will lead to murder.

According to this analysis material, combined with my family genealogy's account of the ancestors, it is inferred that the ancestor Zhao Yanchu, who disappeared that year, is buried in the tomb of the general of the Jin Dynasty.

If it is said in this way, the old man Gliji and Huo Tianqi entered the tomb back then, and in the end, Huo Tianqi did not dare to leave the tomb half a step because of Gu poison, all thanks to the ancestors.

But even so, I still can't explain many things that happened in the tomb back then, such as the shabby pitiful in the general's tomb, even the general of the Jin Dynasty or Sun Muqing, the ancestor of the Sun family, should have a prominent family background and a lot of relics during his lifetime, how can there not even be a decent burial object in the entire tomb?